Improvement in vapor-baths



v J. SPRUILL.

Vapor-Bath.

Patented April 29, 1 879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

JEPTHA SPRUILL, OF OSWEGO, KANSAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN VAPOR-BATHS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 214,963, dated April29, 1879; application filed March 22, 1879.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JEPTHA SPRUILL, of Oswego, in the county of Labetteand State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Vapor-Baths and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is arepresentation of a vertical centralsection of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

My invention relates to an apparatus adapted for giving vapor ormedicated baths to patients, the same being portable and easily movedfrom place to place; and the novelty consists in the construction andarrangement of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap portable means ofapplying to patients at home, or patients unable to be removed fromtheir beds, in the practice of medicines. such as may be indicated bythe nature of the disease, either simple vapor-bath, combined spirit andvapor bath, hot-air bath, or medicated baths of various kinds, in whichmedicines are made to combine with vapor, and applied as the nature ofthe ailment would suggest.

In carryin gout my invention I employa box, of sheet metal or otherproper material, divided by partition as into combustion-chamber A and avapor-chamber, B, as shown. The partition no is horizontal, and has anaperture,

:20, in which operates a vessel, I, which holds the water, medicated orotherwise.

The combustion-chamber A has a proper door, L, to allow the manipulationof the lamp H, and valve J, which governs the outlet from such chamberto the tube D. This tube D leads into the vapor-tube O, at the end ofwhich a flexible tube is to be attached.

K represents a valve, whiclf controls the outlet to the chimney E, asshown.

The door L has a cap-cover, M, provided with damper m, to regulate thedraft.

If it is desired to give a plain vapor-bath, valve J is closed and valveK opened, and the vapor is conveyed to the patient through the tube 0.To give a water and spirit bath, fill vessel I with water and the lampwith spirit, close valve K, and open valve J. To give a medicated bath,combine the proper medicine with the contents of vessel I or lamp H, orboth.

I claim as my invention 1. The valves J and K, combined with thecombustion-chamber A and outlets E D, as and for the purposes set forth.

The box described, having partition as w, dbuble tube 0 D. and chimneyE, combined with the valves J K, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

J E PTH A SPRUILL.

Witnesses:

P. A. REEL, MARTIN D. MILLER.

